Radio choice Charlotte Runcie

Good Evening RADIO 4 EXTRA, 11.15AM

A starry cast portrays the Beyond the Fringe team in this sharp and affecting comic story from 2008, all about how British revue comedy was changed for good by the innovative satirical performances of four oddball Oxbridge types in the Sixties. Told in an unusual sketch-based style, this programme offers the chance to revel in the surprisingly effective impressionist skills of Benedict Cumberbatch as Dudley Moore, Rory Kinnear as Peter Cook, Matt Addis as Alan Bennett and Jonathan Aris as Jonathan Miller.

From the Steppes to the Stage

RADIO 4, 11.30AM

Mongolia is becoming one of the most exciting places in the world to see opera, as this evocative and artistic documentary explores. In the first of two episodes, Kate Molleson tells the story of Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, who last year was the joint winner the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize. The programmes also explore the wide musical landscape of Mongolia, from horse lullabies to traditional throat singing, in a country of rich contrasts between the old and new.